NATHAN B. MARKHAM

MARKHAM-At his residence in the Town of Manitowoc, Wis., January 22, 1882, at
six o'clock a.m., NATHAN B. MARKHAM, aged 85 years and nine months.
Nathan B. Markham died at six o'clock Sunday morning at his home in the town
of Manitowoc, just on the outskirts of our city in the eighty-sixth year of
his age.
For the last five months he had been a sufferer, first from loss of action of
the stomach, but during his last days from paralysis.
Mr. Markham was born in Pittsford, Vt,. April 27th, 1796. He was therefore nearly
86 years old at the time of his death. His father emigrated to Wilmington, Essex
county, New York in 1801, where Mr. Markham has since resided until he came to
this city about eleven years ago.
He belonged to the early pioneers of Northern New York: Was a large, athletic,
hardy man and although he had little benefit from schools, he was all his life
a student, and was well versed in all the business and political events of the
times in which he lived. He became an active member of the Free Masons in 1828
and has at all times been highly attached to the order.
He was married on the 10th of May 1837 to Miss Susan McLeod at Wilmington, Essex
county, New York, who now survives him. His family consisted of six sons and four
daughters, he educated four of his sons for the law, and two for merchants, and
with the aid of his estimable wife, reared and educated all his children in the
most commendable manner. Four sons and three daughters survive him.
Immediately after marriage he engaged extensively in the manufacturing of Iron
and Lumber on the AuSable river in Essex county and continued in said business
for over 40 years. During his residence in New York, he held the office of
Magistrate for 18 consecutive years and was several times chosen chairman of his
town and various other offices, and at all times commanded the confidence, love
and respect of all who had the benefit of his acquaintance.
He was not inclined to change friends and was not easy to get acquainted, but
among his neighbors his word was as good as his bone(sic), and his habits were
without a blemish.
No father could be more respected and loved than he was by his children, and no
earthly home could surpass life for contentment and happiness, and through all
his married life and through all the vicissitudes of life, his love of home, wife
and children has grown stronger and brighter and with a faith in the Great Architect
of his being which did not fail him until he approached that other home whose maker
and builder is God.
He was buried on Tuesday, the funeral be in charge of the Masons who accorded to
their deceased brother all the honors his exemplary life so richly deserved.
Manitowoc Pilot Thursday, January 26, 1882
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[bur. 01-24-1882]